Improvement in logging-dogs



V hereby declare the same to be fully described PATENT OFFKEE,

OTIS E. SMITH, OF WATERVILLE, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LOGGING-DOGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [75,629, dated April4', 1876; application filed March 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OTIS H. SMITH, ofWaterville, of the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have inventeda new and us ful Improvement in Logging-Dogs; and do in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 an edge elevation, of a pair oflogging-dogs of my improved kind.

In carrying out my invention I curve in two directions, as shown, eachof the hooked or spurred arms of the pair of dogs.

In the drawings the two dogs A A are represented as two levers crossingone another, and pivoted together at the crossing, the shorter arms ofthe dogs terminating in two eyes, a a, and the longer ones in two spurs,b b, all being arranged as shown. Each longer arm from end to end notonly curves in one direction, as shown in Fig. 1, but also in another,as represented in Fig. 2, such buing in order that it may lie upon andconform to the surface of a log, and its spur obtain and maintainabetter hold thereof than would be the OTIS E. SMITH. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

